Friday, November 30, 2012

Life in the World of Inequalities


Fighting poverty is on you and it doesn't matter what you do.
Hey!! I think I needed to talk about class status, wealth and poverty. In my short life, I came across thousands of people out there, yes thousands since my life hasn't been that long to consider me saying I met millions. And many of these people for the most part are those from deprived homes and their hopes are always to get the best they can to be the best and make the changes desired in their lives and families.
Many of them also complain and whine bitterly about the fact that we live in a world of massive wealth disparity/gap; thus the rich and the poor. But the truth is, they will never get anything to go their way so why even bother complaining?. It's like wasting of ones breath.
Anyway, I share their pains of how our world is looked at for some people work their way to be where there are and others get those through fortune (inheritance). While others work so hard all of their life and yet, there is nothing to show for. This is especially true for people in other countries like my mother continent Africa. 
Either way, it is their luck to win or inherit wealth and every human being is entitle to lucks.
Though I also share their concerns, yet I never stop to make it known to all that inequalities are part of life, just call it life. As far as life and humanity goes on, there will always be this disparity. We will never be equal, consider this to be the so called  parallel lines we learned in geometry, they can't and would never meet. We will always have smart and damn people, rich and poor, tall and short, advanced and under or developing countries, typically of the western countries and Africa countries, leaders and followers, just to mention a few.
Social Darwinism will always be at play, classes will continue to exist as far as capitalism and other perimeters of measuring wealth are concerned. People will fight and protest about this whole idea of classes and class warfare but then, I don't think we would ever have a solution to this? For instance in the US, the top 1% wealth and riches are equivalent to that of the bottom 99%. This is unbelievable but that is real and Cornel West would say is moral absurdity.
If you were born rich, then thank God everyday for the rest of your life and if not still thank God and hope you can pull yourself out of poverty one day. Poverty to many is seen as a curse and illness and nobody wants to be poor or associate themselves with the have not. Else, why would people do all kinds of dubious stuff in the name of money or conquering poverty?
How long?
God help mankind.
We can't all be rich else who would be the janitor, security man, public bus driver, the cook or chef, the mail man, and or the messenger and all the little people we see in our eyes as little or nobody, and even sometimes disrespect them?
Think about it,
Happy first December.
~Ron

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